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An online poker company has had it’s assets frozen by the Governmentand now says they are going to sue. The government said, “We thinkyou’re bluffing.”

I found this on a gopher, hence do not know the author's name.
The Court of King George III
London, England
July 10, 1776
Mr. Thomas Jefferson
c/o The Continental Congress
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Dear Mr. Jefferson:
We have read your "Declaration of Independence" with great interest. Certainly, it represents a considerable undertaking, and many of your statements do merit serious consideration. Unfortunately, the Declaration as a whole fails to meet recently adopted specifications for proposals to the Crown, so we must return the document to you for further refinement.
The questions which follow might assist you in your process of revision:
In your opening paragraph you use the phrase "the Laws of Nature and Nature's God." What are these laws? In what way are they the criteria on which you base your central arguments? Please document with citations from the recent literature.
In the same paragraph you refer to the more...

The Canadian government is going to help America with the war on terrorism. They have pledged 2 of their biggest battle ships, 6000 ground troops and 6 fighter jets.
Unfortunately, after the exchange rate conversion, we
ended up with 2 canoes, 1 Mountie, and some flying
squirrels.

The FCC fielded 800,000 calls last week after the government mandated switch to digital television.
How can they just switch everyones television signal to digital without giving any kind of advance warning. They should have been running advertising warning people that this was going to happen.

This is why people hate the government. They just don't communicate with the citizens about what's going on in their country.

Because the government refuses to communicate with it's populous I'm going to step in and inform you that the government has a plan to thin out the population by imprisoning, sterilizing and even euthanizing stupid people.

The first 800,000 to be rounded up will be the idiots who called the FCC about the switchover to digital TV.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

One day a boy and his father were at the dining room tableworking on the boy's Social Studies homework, the chapterabout government. The boy turns to his father and asks,"Dad, how many people work in the U.S. government?"The father replies without hesitating, "Oh, about ten percent."

For a couple years I've been blaming it on iron poor blood, lack of vitamins, dieting and a dozen other maladies. Now I found out the real reason. I'm tired because I'm overworked.
The population of this country is 237 million. 104 million are retired. That leaves 133 million to do the work.
There are 85 million in school, which leave 48 million to do the work.
Of this, there are 29 million employed by the federal government.
This leaves 19 million to do the work.
Four million are in the Armed Forces, which leaves 15 million to do the work.
Take from the total the 14, 800, 000 people who work for State and City Government and that leaves 200, 000 to do the work.
There are 188, 000 in hospitals, so that leaves 12, 000 to do the work.
Now, there are 11, 998 people in Prisons. That leaves just two people to do the work.
You and me. . . and you're sitting there reading jokes.